Career handbook

Task 1

1.       Organised

I can complete college work and attend cadets in the evenings.

I keep track of all my finances and where I spend my money.

I am set on my future and know what qualifications I need to proceed my career.

2.       Discipline

I have discipline to focus on my work.

I have the discipline to listen when being talked to.

I look after 25 cadets on my ATC squadron.

3. I can use IT software
I can use Premier Pro
I can use Microsoft Office

I can use Adobe Photoshop

Task 2

·         Part time- occupying or using a limited amount of someone’s times, I work at Woodfordes' brewery during holidays and some weekends.

·         Full time-occupying or using the whole of someone's available working time, studying at college.

·         GCSE- This is a qualification gained at secondary school I have 6 GCSE’S at C level and above.

·         AS, A Level- This is a qualification that you study during your time at sixth form college.

·         Level 2, Level 3, Level 4- These are the levels that a BTEC contains, level 2 being a GCSE equivalent and level 3 an A level equivalent. I am currently studying a Level 3 course.

 

·         Pass, Merit & Distinction in the BTEC Nationals- This is the grading criteria for BTEC, pass being C, Merit being B and distinction being A, they change during the different levels of BTEC.

·         Vocational- Vocational education is education within vocational schools that prepares people for a specific trade.

·         Bachelor- a person who holds a first degree from a university  

·          Master- A master's degree is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

 Once the student has a first degree, they are called a graduate and may choose to take a higher qualification. Postgraduate Certificate is after the first year, Postgraduate Diploma is awarded after the bachelor, Master's Degree, PhD etc.).

Task 3

Editor

Editorial

When you are a film or video editor, you are responsible for assembling recorded raw material into a finished product that can be broadcasted. The material may include camera footage, dialogue, sound effects, graphics and special effects. Starting salaries for those employed by a television or post-production studio are in the region of £18,000 to £25,000. With experience as a film or video editor, you could earn £20,000 to £35,000. At a senior level, you could earn  £37,000 to £70,000 but the higher end of this scale is only available to senior editors working on high-status projects

Director

Directorial

Being the driving creative force in a film's production - visualising and defining the style and structure of the film, then bringing it to life. You will carry out duties such as casting, script editing, shot composition, shot selection and editing. You are acting as the crucial link between the production, technical and creative teams. You don’t need a formal qualification to become a Director. Your pay really depends on how successful you are, here is an example of Spielberg’s wage. Daily: GBP 265,487.00.

Sound Recordist

Sound Recordist record sound on location or in a studio, usually in synchronization with the camera, to enable the highest quality 'real' sound to be recorded at the time of filming. You won’t need a qualification to be a TV Sound Recordist. However it is vital to be able to show a strong interest in sound and an understanding of its physical properties. Typical starting salary: £16,000 - £18,000 in an established studio or in television and radio. Typical salary with experience, e.g. after ten years in the role: £30,000 - £35,000.

Methods of recruitment

National press are the papers that sell across the country and highlight national events, like the Daily Mail and The Guardian. Bellow you can see that there is a job advertisement section in the paper and a category for media.

  

Trade press

Trade magazines and newspapers typically contain advertising content centred on the industry with little general-audience advertising. They also it mainly contains industry-specific job notices, a highly pertinent aspect to many readers. Seen bellow is a trade specific magazine and is likely to only contain adverts of media jobs.

The Internet

The internet is the new and fast way for looking for a job and there are specific websites for job seekers. Bellow you can the website TotalJobs.com which I found in no time using a search engine, It shows 5,800 media jobs and you can apply online.

Trade fair

Trade fairs are exhibitions so that companies in a specific industry can showcase and demonstrate their latest products and examine recent market trends and opportunities. For example Comic con is a fair where all cartoon media fans meet and display their latest projects.

Word of mouth

This is literally when you tell someone orally, you could be told about a job in the media by a friend or maybe by someone that works at the business. 

Personal Contacts & Networking

You may have contacts in the media trade and if they were to be opening a vacancy they could contact you personally, them may not be in the media trade but know of a media job that is open.

Internal Promotion

The assessment of an employer's current staff to ascertain if any current employees are sufficiently skilled or qualified to perform required job vacancies. When a business engages in internal recruitment, a current employee might be reassigned to the new position by giving them either a promotion or an internal transfer.   

Task 6

Portfolio

A portfolio is a collection of documents and writing that you assemble in order to demonstrate that you have the appropriate prior and experiential learning. At the moment I am currently keeping all of the certificate achievements in a folder so that I have a large number of documents to show and to prove that I am committed and to show my achievements.

Showreel

A showreel is a short videotape containing examples of an actor's or director's work for showing to potential employers. You could use a short film that you have made, here is an example of a shot advertisement I made.

Personal website

A personal website is one that you own and you can advertise yourself off this website. I don’t personal have my own website but here is an example of my teachers’ website for his professional video and film production, http://www.trettfilms.com/ .

Task 7

Interviewing skills are a group of skills that you can use to help get the job over the other applicants. It is always good to keep eye contact with the person you are talking to, rather than looking elsewhere. This can be a problem with people that suffer with social interaction but on a day to day basis if you just try to talk to someone with eye contact over time your confidence will grow.

With presentations it can be boring for some of the people watching, a good bit of advice is not keep a monotone voice, let your voice raise in specific parts but don’t go over bored. It is also good to use interesting visual aid to keep your views engaged and with the same in interviewing skills, look your audience in the eye and try to look at everybody. Good practise for this would be giving a presentation to some of your friends or with volunteers.

Self-presentation- as far as Linguistic codes go it is always good to speak formally at interviews, try to stay away from colloquial language and using curse words. You need to remember that you are trying to sell yourself to the interviewer. For interviews and formal events it is always good to dress in a suit or shirt and tie, make yourself look good. It is also good to have a clean shave and wash before your interview to make sure that you are clean and do not have body odder. Interpersonal skills are the skills used by a person to properly interact with others. In the business domain, the term generally refers to an employee's ability to get along with others while getting the job done. Interpersonal skills include everything from communication and listening skills to attitude and deportment.  It is good practise to dress up now and then to go out or just for a day. A reference is a letter written by any old employer or teacher, they will write the honest truth about you and how they thought you worked. These can be a great help because it shows the interviewer the real you. It is always good to keep good relations with bosses and ex-employers.

Task 8

Employee training on the job while he or she is doing the actual job. Usually a professional trainer (or sometimes an experienced employee) serves as the course instructor using hands-on training often supported by formal classroom training.

Self-training is when you take it on your own responsibility to train yourself, for example you can self-train on how to use a DLSR and to use Premier pro.

Sources of information

A trade union is an organized association of workers in a trade, group of trades, or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests. For example Industrial Workers of the World.

Sector Skills Councils (SSCs) are independent UK wide organisations. They are employer-led and their primary purpose is to deal with the skills and productivity needs of their sector throughout the UK.

Careers Service provides information, advice and guidance to help you make decisions on learning, training and work opportunities. For example NCS help people train for trades and find a career.

Task 5

Dear whom it may concern,

I am applying for the role of Media operations officer which I found on the RAF careers website. 

The nature of my recent college Sub-diploma has prepared me for this position. During my Sixth form educating I had to stick to deadlines and work under pressure. Some other great skills I have required are having great initiative, being self-motivated and I also have great social skills and I am able to work with anyone. My recent course in Creative media (TV & Film) gave me a great understanding of the industry and I found myself being much more focused in class.

I have a great understanding on current public affairs and like to keep up to date on what’s going on in the world. I like to look at the news on all platforms from newspapers to radio broadcasting. I would love to represent the Royal Air Force and to have the opportunity to progress my knowledge of media.

Thank you for taking the time read this application and I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Yours gratefully, Daniel Middleton 

Reply letter for apprentice

To whom it may concern,                                                                                    17/06/2015

 I’m writing to you about your recent advertisement for the Apprentice Digital Video Production Producer, there are many things wrong with this advertisement that are against certain legal acts and I want to highlight them for you. Contracts are legal agreements that relate to your own terms of employment, in the advertisement you talk say that if you are successful, “you must not apply for other positions of this nature”. If a candidate is successful they should expect an exclusivity clause.

 The Equality Act (2010) is an Act that was created to cover many different Acts that effect Discrimination on grounds of race, gender and age in the work place, the Acts that it consist of range from the Equal Pay Act (1970) to the Race Relations Act (1976). Equal Opportunities employers recruit fairly. They produce codes of practice to comply with the Equality Act. In your advertisement you are looking for a male or female “ages below 30” which is against the Employment Equality (Age) regulations (2006) and you state that the candidate has got to be of “Christian” faith, which is against the Employment Equality (Religion and Belief) Regulations (2003). Employers’ liability insurance that helps cover compensation if an employee is injured or becomes ill because of the work they do. Employment rights cover a vast number of things such as protection against unfair dismissal, the right to request flexible working and time off for emergencies. There are also Trade Unions that protect you and stand with you if something was to happen in the work place. As a candidate you would not be covered by these Rights and the Trade Unions, So what if something was to happen? With the short documentary that you are asking the candidate to make something could happen, for example you are interviewing a victim that has Post Dramatic Stress Disorder and they become iritic and cause damage to someone or something you have no rights covering you and you would be left alone to deal with such a matter.

 Codes of practise are not part of the law, but they exist to protect the citizen and play a predominant role in TV and film. As a candidate they do not affect them, but they should be made well aware of your codes of practise and policies and procedures. The way that certain people, groups and places see your short documentary may cause some problems, well both know that the media can be problematic and with the topic of rape it would be seen upon as wrong to some people. The media representation can create or exacerbate social problems and concerns, how would you protect your candidate from these people and the media?

 There are some legal issues that effects your candidates production, Ofcom are in charge of regulating all media, here is a reference under the Section one: protecting the under 18’s “1.1 Material that might seriously impair the physical, mental or moral development of people under eighteen must not be broadcast.”. Because you want to show this documentary to “children at high school” and it is such a touchy subject, there is a small probability you would be able to show it. Her is a reference from section 2 “2.4 Programmes must not include material (whether in individual programmes or in programmes taken together) which, taking into account the context, condones or glamorizes violent, dangerous or seriously antisocial behavior and is likely to encourage others to copy such behavior.)” you say that you want the candidate to create re-enactments, this would strongly go against this code and could cause others to copy such behavior.

 It is a criminal offence to publish any content that effect will "deprave and corrupt" those that read, see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it. This covers images of extreme sexual activity such as bestiality, necrophilia, rape or torture. Again you are asking the candidate to create “re-enactments” depending on how graphic these images are will decide whether it’s committing a criminal offence. This documentary is would need to be a PG certification because of the age of the high school children, but because you want the candidate to make such adult content it would be given an 18 certification and would not be allowed to be shown in schools.

 Last but not least on the terms of Intellectual property, you would not be able to use a “popular music soundtrack” because it would be copyright and your company and the candidate will be committing a criminal offence. I hope this letter helps you learn a few things and that your next job advertisement is one of a higher standard.

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Ownership and Funding

Ownership

Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) are television programs that are shown benefit the public compared to commercial purposes. These programs can range from arts programs to news coverage and religious programs. For example all off the BBC’s television and radio stations include a public service remit, including those that broadcast digitally. Such companies as the BBC can’t use advertisement and cannot be bias.

Commercial broadcasting is the broadcasting of programs and radio programming that is shown by a privately owned corporate media, it is also known as private broadcasting. For example ITV are a commercial broadcaster and can use advertisement to make money.

Corporate and private ownership Corporate ownership is a company that is broadcasting to the public and are not trying to make a profit from gaining views. Private ownership is the opposite, they try to gain views so they can make a profit from advertisement and so on. 

Global companies are companies that have invested and are present in many other countries. They market their products by using the same coordinated image/brand in all markets areas. There is normally office that is responsible for global business. For example, The British Sky Broadcasting Group reach all around the world, especially in the UK they have expanded to all side of media from film to music. As you can see bellow they use a very eye catching logo across all of their branches.

Vertical Integration  This is when a company has shares or owns each part of the production and distribution process, and a commercial business tries to combat the power of company’s such as the BBC by becoming larger and creating vertical integration. An example, Warner Bros Entertainment says that they are a fully integrated broad based entertainment company because it owns film studios and the means to distribute the films as well as some of the cinemas in which they are shown. Recently they made their own music corporation.  

https://www.warnerbros.co.uk/movies

Horizontal Integration this is where a business develops by  creating new business in the the sector or buying up competitors in the same section of the market, for example a newspaper that releases a copy only Sundays buys all the competition that sells on Sundays. A great example would be Rupert Murdock who brought his competition papers and owns them all, as you can see bellow in the photo his strategy has worked and made him millions.

Funding

Licences a standard colour TV Licence costs £145.50 – the equivalent of £12.13 per month or just under 40p per day. The fee you pay provides a wide range of TV, radio and online content, as well as developing new ways to deliver it to you. The licence fee money goes to the BBC's UK services so they remain free of advertisements and independent of shareholder and political interest.

"http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/tv-licence-types-and-costs-top2"

Subscriptions this is when you pay certain amount of money a month to access a range of media, for example Netflix is a subscription service. You pay a monthly subscription to watch an unlimited amount of TV shows and films.

One-off payment to own product this is when you pay a one off payment to access media, for example sky allows you to buy movie content and you can instantly watch the content and will get the DVD through the post. For example the Sky movies 'Buy and Keep' scheme which lets you watch the film on demand and they also send you the DVD.

http://www.sky.com/products/ways-to-watch/sky-store/buy-and-keep/

Pay Per View Service by which a subscriber of a television service provider can purchase events to view via private telecast. The broadcaster shows the event at the same time to everyone. For example boxing matches and such events can be accessed by pay per view. For example the Mayweather vs Pacquiao that made a record $500m in PPV incoome.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/boxing/mayweather-vs-pacquiao/11600966/Mayweather-vs-Pacquiao-blitzes-money-making-record-with-500m-in-pay-per-view-income.html

Sponsorship can be used to gain money for your production, there are many groups that you can apply for to gain funding, and you can also have private sponsors which are people who feel funding your production will benefit them. Here are some examples Sponsors to consider:

The Arts Council

The British Council

Visiting Arts has useful links to other organisations providing funding.

Westminster Council

Voluntary Arts Network

MakingMusic.org

Advertising you can see advertising spot on your production to make extra money, such things as product placement can be used also, for an example in EastEnders you can also spot Happy shopper on the shelves. 

Private Capital is when people in a good financial state want to infest into your media product, this may be for shares of profits or you could receive a lone from them to help with financial problems. For example Megan Ellison who help finance Zero Dark Thirty.  

Crowd-funding has really taken off in the decade with the rise on the internet, this is when you ask for fans to donate money toward your product, there are specific website that have been set up for this such thing, for example Kick-starter lets the fans invest into your product and you can give them special content such as trailers or vlogs.

Development funds are used in an indirect sales channel where funds are made available by a manufacturer or brand to help affiliates, channel partners, re sellers, VARs, or distributors, etc. sell its products and create local awareness about the national brand. For example you can see the BFI Film Fund bellow.

BFI Film Fund "invest over £26m of lottery funds to help film development, production and distribution."you apply by filling out an application form found on the website listed bellow.

http://www.bfi.org.uk/supporting-uk-film/funding-filmmakers